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Mildred Pierce had gorgeous legs, a way with a skillet, and a bone-deep core of toughness. She used those attributes to survive a divorce and poverty and to claw her way out of the lower middle class. But Mildred also had two weaknesses: a yen for shiftless men, and an unreasoning devotion to a monstrous daughter. Out of these elements, Cain creates a novel of acute social observation and devastating emotional violence, with a heroine whose ambitions and sufferings are never less than recognizable.
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Mildred Pierce, James M. Cain, Tom Wolfe
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- Released
- 1989
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- Title
- Mildred Pierce
- Language
- English
- Authors
- James M. Cain, Tom Wolfe
- Publisher
- Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
- Released
- 1989
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 298
- ISBN10
- 0679723218
- ISBN13
- 9780679723219
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Mystery & Thriller, Historical Fiction, Mystery Novels, Love, Classics, USA, Adapted for Film, Noir, Divorce, Mothers and Daughters, Single Parents, 1930s, Financial Crisis
- First published
- 1941
- Original title
- Mildred Pierce
- Rating
- 3.95 out of 5
- Description
- Mildred Pierce had gorgeous legs, a way with a skillet, and a bone-deep core of toughness. She used those attributes to survive a divorce and poverty and to claw her way out of the lower middle class. But Mildred also had two weaknesses: a yen for shiftless men, and an unreasoning devotion to a monstrous daughter. Out of these elements, Cain creates a novel of acute social observation and devastating emotional violence, with a heroine whose ambitions and sufferings are never less than recognizable.